[mrtg] Re: mrtg.cfg file being truncated

[Derek Winkler]

Check your crontab carefully you've got a > in there which overwrites your
config.

You're also missing some entries if you're trying to run this every 2
minutes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Westermann, Gavin [mailto:gavin.westermann at attcanada.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:37 PM
To: 'Brander, Eric'; 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: [mrtg] Re: mrtg.cfg file being truncated



Sure.

00,02,06,10,12,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,46,48,50,52,54,56,5
8 * * * * /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg > /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg.cfg
--logging /var/log/mrtg2.log #MRTG poll

this is it.  It was originally working, but I redid it because of of the
files was not updating for some reason.  Next time I looked this trunking
was happening.  If you run that as just a command line it will do the same
thing.

/usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg   /usr/local/mrtg-2/bin/mrtg.cfg

Gavin Westermann
Internetworking Operations Consultant
World Markets
AT&T Canada Corp
5160 Orbitor Drive
Mississauga, Ontario
L4W 5H2
ph: 905-361-6126
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brander, Eric [mailto:Eric.Brander at ACS-INC.com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:23 PM
To: 'Westermann, Gavin'; 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: RE: [mrtg] mrtg.cfg file being truncated

Sounds like your cron job could have the wrong command line. Can you show us
the crontab line in question?  MRTG does not modify the config files when it
runs. Just a guess (and based on the lack if info here - a long shot at
best) you are running cfgmaker every 5 minutes, and not MRTG.

Eric Brander
ACS
Texas CHIP Account
Sr. Communications Engineer - Information Systems Department
512.336.3331
Eric dot Brander at acs-inc dot com


-----Original Message-----
From: Westermann, Gavin [mailto:gavin.westermann at attcanada.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:54 PM
To: 'mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch'
Subject: [mrtg] mrtg.cfg file being truncated


I had this working on an HP box but now I have a strange problem that I just
can't figure out.  I make my config usring cfgmaker and the result is placed
where I want by the script. 

 

-rw-------   1 root       sys          67539 Feb 27 11:44 mrtg.cfg

 

after the cron runs the first run this file some how trunkates to this.

 

-rw-------   1 root       sys            240 Feb 27 12:02 mrtg.cfg

 

All that is in that file is the header? The actuall config that sits south
of that is missing?

 

I cannot figure out why this is happening?

 

Gavin

 

Gavin Westermann

Internetworking Operations Consultant

World Markets

AT&T Canada Corp

5160 Orbitor Drive

Mississauga, Ontario

L4W 5H2

ph: 905-361-6126

 

 



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